valin4tor / bacpac

Project archived as I no longer use Arch - looking for maintainers!

bacpac

bacpac is a backup and restore script for Arch Linux's pacman configuration data and manually installed packages.

Dependencies

• bash for the script itself
• git and diffutils for backing up current packages and configuration
• sudo and grep for restoring packages and configuration
• ...that's all!

Getting started

Setting up bacpac for the first time is super-easy; the only requirement is a GitHub account to sync your packages. To get started, read the following instructions:

1. Create a GitHub account if you don't already have one.

2. Fire up a terminal.

3. git clone https://github.com/tech4david/bacpac

4. cd bacpac

5. ./bacpac init

6. Follow the instructions displayed on the terminal.

Please report any issues you find with bacpac here or submit a pull request.

bacpac's Issues

Custom repositories

Custom repositories will stop bacpac working properly if they require another key, as pacman will give an error when syncing the repositories. bacpac should either disable custom repos and let the user manually enable them later or automatically get the key to make them work.

aur?

is there an aur package?

Safer package removal process

Currently, when restoring packages, bacpac tries to remove everything that's manually installed on the system that isn't shown on the backup, but instead it should mark these as "installed as dependency" and then autoremove them. This way, if a package depends on another package that would be removed, then there won't be an error.

SSH cloning

This is not really an issue, but rather a feature: Instead of giving the https URL, you can simply give the ssh git clone link. The advantage is that you don't need to enter your password if you have an ssh key setup on your account.

Also, the password method doesn't seem to work with 2FA anyway, so this is really awesome and should be pointed out ;)

Optional dependencies

bacpac won't back up packages installed as dependencies (--asdeps) that are optional for another package, because it only backs up explicitly installed packages. Optional dependencies that were installed with --asdeps (or modified with pacman -D) should be backed up too in another file

Check dependencies

bacpac doesn't check if you've got the dependencies installed before running, and it would be nicer to make it check rather than Bash giving a command not found error when, for example, it's backing up.

Add a post install pacman hook

To allow the package list to be auto-updated upon installing a package.